I still remember walking into the office of a well reputed private college at the age of 18, to seek sponsorship for Youth Ki Awaaz, and being made fun of for starting something as stupid as a blog. That meeting… Read more

India as a nation is at a point of inflection today - the thinking, frameworks, institutions and processes that have taken us this far don’t seem to be adequate for the road ahead. For one thing, these were, by their… Read more

Recently, the nonprofit I work with received a letter from a man who said he was writing to us as a “last resort.”  He was asking for help dealing with toxic pollution in his neighborhood in India, half a world… Read more

  Small and medium enterprises (SMEs) have long been the true creators of employment in most countries. This is particularly true both in the US and in India. In the US, there are 28 million small businesses and they have… Read more

As Indian Americans, we have a lot to be proud of in our communities and in the changes underway in India.  Today, to protect our families and this remarkable progress, we must address one of the greatest health and development… Read more

Barack Obama’s victory in 2012 was the result of the Democrats’ ability to attract new voters, primarily minorities, which include Latino-Americans, Asian Americans, and African Americans. So it was only fitting that Indiaspora threw an impressive celebration the Saturday before… Read more

The national budget announced today, March 1, 2013, tells a lot about the nature of India’s prosperity being experienced in recent years. It is not so much the lower growth rate of 6% projected for next year that troubles ordinary… Read more

  The Indian American (or Asian Indian as defined by the US Census) population in 2010 stood at 3.2 million, a 68 percent increase from 1.9 million in 2000. Of this about 2.9 million were solely of Indian heritage and… Read more

Even as U.S. scientists and policy makers have been wringing their hands over America’s waning influence as a scientific powerhouse, other countries such as India and China and have been steadily building up their own infrastructure for research. Each of… Read more

I have always been possessed by an inexorable urge to fix what is broken: to penetrate, heal, reform those institutions that entrench social inequities and compress the human potential. I come from a family for whom subverting such structures was… Read more